Weekly thread #02 of 2022 | Laravel Code Tips

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🔥 You can add the context() and render() methods to custom exceptions

If you're creating custom exceptions inside your Laravel application, you can add a "context()" method to provide additional data to be printed in the log, as well as a "render()" method to allow the exception to display its own view to the user. Super cool! 🤩

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🔥 Your CLI commands in Laravel can provide auto-complete for the terminal

Did you know that you can provide auto-complete hints for your commands in Laravel?

These can be pretty helpful in your internal CLI tools that you have in your projects 🚀

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🔥 You can use @includeWhen to include certain Blade partials when some condition is met. For instance, when the current user is an admin

Make use of the built-in "includeWhen" and "includeUnless" directives to get rid of those ugly if conditions.

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🔥 Form elements can have a "target" attribute which works very similarly to <a> tags

Did you know that "form" elements can have a "target" attribute too?

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🔥 You can use the value() method in Eloquent to fetch a single column from the DB

Just learned about the Eloquent "value()" method from @amaelftah 💪. Eloquent make things so easy. Seems like there's shortcuts hiding everywhere, I love it! 💅🤩

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🔥 You can use the @production Blade directive to load specific scripts only in production mode

The @.production blade directive makes it super easy to load e.g. Google Analytics or other stuff when your Laravel app is in production mode